Billionaire Lumberjack's Bride by Gwyn McNamee

Author:Gwyn McNamee [McNamee, Gwyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gwyn McNamee

Chapter Eleven

SILAS

The sun hasn’t come up yet as I drive down the mountain, but I still recognize the spot where we stopped and I kissed Lyla yesterday.

My entire body stiffens.

Everywhere.

Memories of her moving over me, taking me into her hot, tight body and decimating any ability for me to think come flooding back. For those few brief moments when we were locked together like that, it was easy to forget why it was such a bad idea.

But the moment clarity returned, so did the realization that I’d made a horrible mistake.

I knew, if I ever let myself give into that woman, it would destroy any willpower I had, and that’s exactly what happened. Lyla shattered me completely with her kiss and her touch, the way she never looked at me with pity, despite being able to see all my scars and knowing how completely fucked in the head I am.

She gave herself to me fully, opened herself up to all the pain and trauma I carry and will bring to her life.

And I can’t do this to her.

Not after that.

I can’t continue to put her in this position and force her to face what’s coming for me in this showdown with Uncle Marty. It will only hurt her—expose her to my darkest secrets and the most vile human being I’ve ever met. Which is exactly why, as soon as we both came down from our high yesterday and she rolled off me, I fled as fast as I could.

Like the coward I am, I ran.

Again.

Needing the space, the distance.

Some damn quiet in my head when she won’t stop racing through it so I could try to hatch a plan, figure some way out of this mess.

The only reason I needed this marriage was to secure my position with the trust, but maybe there’s a way to defeat Uncle Marty without it. I never wanted the company or the money, anyway, just him gone and someone who actually has a heart and some morals and isn’t a deviant piece of shit at the helm.

There has to be another way.

I spent the entire night in the barn, going over every possibility, and by morning, my resolve to end this was even stronger.

It’s what allowed me to leave before sunrise without seeing Lyla or telling her where I was going. She would have tried to stop me, would have argued and pushed and insisted that I am only doing this because I don’t know how to let someone in.

But it isn’t about that.

It’s about protecting her from what’s out there—who’s out there.

And there’s only one way to do it.

I pull over on the side of the road near Millsburg’s single stop sign, between the intersection and the beginning of Main Street, where hopefully no one will notice me this early but I can get some damn phone reception.

I pull out the burner phone Ronald gave me the day of the wedding and dial him, resting my head against the headrest and closing my eyes.

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